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What did you discover? Reflections on History Day 2024

Nov 19, 2024

Katherine Chapman, History Day 2024 intern, reflects on her contribution to the 10th anniversary event. History Day is organised by Senate House Library and the Institute of Historical Research, and Katherine held one of three IHR paid internships. And just like that,...

Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 2)

Oct 23, 2024

In this second of two blog posts, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the challenges and potentials of digitising historical sources. As discussed in the earlier of these posts, digitising a VCH Big Red Book is far from straightforward...

Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

Dec 6, 2023

This summer Destinie Reynolds completed a three-month internship with the IHR’s History & Policy research team. In this blog, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project “The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and...

What did you discover? Reflections on History Day 2024

Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 2)

Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

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